New Deepseek Flash model matches OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Luna at roughly 60 percent lower cost
Quick Answer
Deepseek's V4 Flash '0731' model rivals OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Luna, scoring 50 points and costing 60% less per task.
Quick Take
It shows significant improvements in agentic tasks and uses fewer tokens, while maintaining a similar architecture with 284 billion parameters.
Key Points
- Deepseek V4 Flash '0731' scores 50 points, just one point behind GPT-5.6 Luna.
- The new model costs about 60% less per task than OpenAI's offering.
- Improvements noted in agentic tasks and reduced hallucination rates.
- It uses 12% fewer tokens than its predecessor, enhancing efficiency.
- Model weights are available under MIT license on Hugging Face.
Source Excerpt
Deepseek's budget model V4 Flash gets a major boost with the "0731" update, jumping ten points to 50 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. That puts it just one point behind OpenAI's GPT-5. 6 Luna, at roughly 60 percent lower cost per task.
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